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- Search the Literature Online (LION) database to find background and criticism on Hurston, as well as on individual titles (Mule Bone, Their Eyes Were Watching God, "Polk County," etc.). You can also search for a subject, such as "American Literature."
- Try the Literature Resource Center database as well for criticism and references on certain works or authors in reference sources, such as the Dictionary of Literary Biography, Literature Criticism, etc.
- Search the Library Catalog (see "Suggested Subject Headings" below).
- To dig deeper, search the MLA and Humanities Full-Text databases.
This list is not comprehensive! Perform an author search in the Library Catalog for "Hurston, Zora Neale" to see more titles. If you need a work that is not owned by the Library, please place an Interlibrary Loan request for it.
| Dust Tracks on a Road: An Autobiography | -- PS3515 .U789 Z465 1984 |
| Mules and Men | -- GR103 .H8 1970, GR103 .H8 1978 |
| Seraph on the Suwanee: A Novel | -- PS3515 .U789 S47 1991 |
| Tell My Horse: [Voodoo and Life in Haiti and Jamaica] | -- BL2490 .H87 1938 |
| Their Eyes Were Watching God: A Novel | -- PS3515 .U789 T639 1991 |
| Rereading the Harlem Renaissance: Race, Class, and Gender in the Fiction of Jessie Fauset, Zora Neale Hurston, and Dorothy West | -- PS153 .N5 J66 2002 |
| Student Companion to Zora Neale Hurston | -- available through netLibrary |
| Zora Neale Hurston and American Literary Culture | -- PS3515 .U789 Z94 2005 |
| A Companion to the Literature and Culture of the American South | -- PS261 .C665 2004 |
| Contemporary Authors | -- REF PN451 .C63 |
| Contemporary Literary Criticism | -- REF PN771 .C59 |
| Dictionary of Literary Biography | -- REF PS21 .D5 |
| Twentieth-Century Literary Criticism | -- REF PN771 .G27 |
To access an electronic book, look it up by title in the library catalog and click on the link at the bottom of the record. The link will take you to the book in the netLibrary or ebrary databases. If you live off-campus, you will need to set-up a free account from a computer that is on-campus.
- To see a list of electronic books on Zora Neale Hurston, click here.
| Feminine "No!:" Psychoanalysis and the New Canon | -- available through netLibrary |
| Moses in America: The Cultural Uses of Biblical Narrative | -- available through netLibrary |
| Their Eyes Were Watching God: Notes | -- available through netLibrary |
| Zora in Florida | -- available through netLibrary |
| Zora Neale Hurston's Their Eyes Were Watching God | -- available through netLibrary |
Use these terms to perform a subject search in the library's catalog. Be sure to browse through the headings list you get to see subtopics.
- African-Americans in Literature
- African-American Women in Literature
- American Literature -- Southern States
- Florida -- In Literature
- Hurston, Zora Neale
- Hurston, Zora Neale -- Criticism and Interpretation
- Southern States -- In Literature
- Women Folklorists
- Women and Literature
- Women and Literature -- Southern States -- History -- 20th Century
Use the following library databases to find journal articles about the works of Zora Neale Hurston, as well as biographical information, essays, and other critical and reference resources.
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Humanities Full-Text
Indexes articles under the subjects of archaeology, area studies, art, classical studies, communications, dance, film, folklore, gender studies, history, journalism, linguistics, literary & social criticism literature, music, performing arts, philosophy, religion and theology. -
Literature Online (LION)
Fully searchable library of more than 350,000 works of English and American poetry, drama and prose, 168 full-text literature journals, and other key criticism and reference resources. -
Literature Resource Center
Provides access to biographies, bibliographies, and critical analyses of authors from every age and literary discipline. Combining Gale Group's core literary databases in a single online service, the Literature Resource Center covers more than 120,000 novelists, poets, essayists, journalists, and other writers, with in-depth coverage of 2,500 of the most-studied authors. -
MLA International Bibliography
Indexes journal articles, books, and dissertations. Produced by the Modern Language Association, this database goes back to 1963 and contains over 1.5 million citations from more than 4,400 journals and series and 1,000 book publishers. Coverage is international and subjects include literature, language and linguistics, folklore, literary theory & criticism, dramatic arts, as well as the historical aspects of printing and publishing. Listings on rhetoric and composition and the history, theory and practice of teaching language and literature are also included.
Zora Neale Hurston in Florida -- from the Florida Memory Project, sound recordings of Hurston made while she worked for the WPA
The Zora Neale Hurston Digital Archive -- from the University of Central Florida
Zora Neale Hurston -- biography page from Voices from the Gap
Zora Neale Hurston Festival Homepage -- festival is held the last week in January in Eatonville, FL
| Citing Sources | -- from the Duke University Libraries |
| MLA Handbook for Writers of Research Papers | -- RREF LB2369 .G52 2003 * |
* RREF stands for Ready Reference near the reference desk on the first floor.
Need more help finding resources? Email me at kowens@flagler.edu or visit the Library's Reference Desk.
Last Updated: September 08, 2008